EDWARD Said, 13 years dead but intellectually unburiable, used to say that there was only one “last taboo” in the United States. You could talk about blacks, gays – pretty much anything you wanted – the Palestinian scholar, linguist, historian and musician would tell us. But you can’t talk about America and Israel. Not, at least, in any critical sense. But here we are in an American election year and Bernie Sanders is calling for a more “even-handed” approach to the Palestinians; Vice President Joe Biden has expressed his “overwhelming frustration” with Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu; even Hillary Clinton – who, of course, is probably going to be the next US President – has managed...
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